I wanted to do new things with dance, adapt it to the motion picture medium.

America now has more and better dancers than they have ever had in the history of the country, but that won't account for the public wants to see.

Things danced on the screen do not look the way they do on the stage. On the stage, dancing is three-dimensional, but a motion picture is two-dimensional.

When I would create a dance, I wouldn't have the luxury that ballet people do when they take a piece of music and impose a dance upon it. What we did in motion pictures was have a song and within that song try to elaborate. My usual method was to do what a writer does: get a plot.

The future of dance will always be tied up with the public's acceptance of the star. If they accept the star, then they'll accept the dance.

If Fred Astaire is the Cary Grant of dance, I'm the Marlon Brando.

I think dancing is a man's game and if he does it well he does it better than a woman.